When does voluntary coordination work? Evidence from area-wide pest management

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dc.contributor.author Lence, Sergio
dc.contributor.author Singerman, Ariel
dc.contributor.department Economics
dc.date.accessioned 2022-03-22T13:32:46Z
dc.date.available 2022-03-22T13:32:46Z
dc.date.issued 2022
dc.description.abstract We introduce the “coordination frontier” (CF), a simple practical tool to assess the likelihood of success of voluntary coordination in situations where, ex ante, the collective action solution provides an appealing alternative (e.g., for pest and disease control). We demonstrate the value of information conveyed by the CF, explain how to construct the CF from experimental data, and show how to apply the CF in practice. We illustrate the concept with an application to data from a framed field economic experiment, which was designed to elicit the preferences of Florida's citrus growers regarding their willingness to coordinate actions to combat citrus greening disease. This is a highly relevant case study not only because of the significant impact caused by citrus greening on Florida's citrus industry but also because a voluntary area-wide pest management program to control it had been established in 2010 and eventually failed; a similar program is now in place in California, where the disease spread is at an earlier stage. Had the CF been available in Florida, estimates of the (aggregate) chances of successful coordination could have been shared with growers to update their beliefs regarding the chances of successful coordination to help reduce strategic uncertainty. Policymakers in California could use the CF in such way and devise ways to encourage participation to increase the chances of reaching a desired coordination threshold.
dc.description.comments This article is published as Lence, Sergio H., and Ariel Singerman. "When does voluntary coordination work? Evidence from area‐wide pest management." American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2022). doi:10.1111/ajae.12308. Posted with permission. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
dc.identifier.uri https://dr.lib.iastate.edu/handle/20.500.12876/ywAbGAgv
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher © 2022 The Authors
dc.source.uri https://doi.org/10.1111/ajae.12308 *
dc.subject area-wide pest management
dc.subject citrus greening
dc.subject coordination
dc.subject pest management
dc.title When does voluntary coordination work? Evidence from area-wide pest management
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